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ANNOUNCEMENT

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I Pickering . College .

FOR THE YEAR

1893-93.

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THE J. E. BRYANT COMPANY (LIMITED).

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ANNOUNCEMENT

OF

PICKERING COLLEGE

FOR THE YEAR

1892-93.

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Toronto

:

THE J. E. BRYANT COMPANY (Limited).

1892.

ptckevtno College.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Trustees

CYRUS R. SING,

ELIAS ROGERS, .

ABRAHAM SAYLOE

.. Meaford.

Toronto.

Bloomfield.

Representatives of Yearly Meeting:

SAMUEL ROGERS,

JOHN RICHARD HARRIS,

•SQUIRE W. HILL,

STEPHEN W. WHITE,

WILLIAM J. DALE,

JOSEPH KINGSTON,

Toronto.

Rockwood.

Ridgeville.

Bloomfield.

Pickering

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Picton

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Chairman: Secretary:

CYRUS R. SING.|

ELIAS ROGERS.

flMcfcenno College,

FACULTY.

WILLIAM P. FIRTH, M.S Principal.

Science and Mathematics.

ELLA ROGERS, B.A., Lady Principal.

English and Modern Languages.

Commercial Branches.

ELM A A. CRONK, .. .. . Second Class Provincial.

Preparatory Department.

MRS. E. j. DIGNUM,

Music.

Drawing and Painting.

Sarah A. Dale .. .. Matron.

* Suitable provision will be made for these departments before the^opening of the school

by the engagement of a first-class Commercial Master, and a capable teacher of Drawing

and Painting.

Hnnouncement

THE COLLEGE.

Pickering College has been established by the Society of

Friends for the purpose of educating young people of both sexes

(irrespective of their religious denomination), and is conducted

under the control of a committee of the Canada Yearly Meeting.

The College is located in the village of Pickering, quite near the

Pickering station of the Grand Trunk Railway (twenty-two miles

east of Toronto), and only five miles west of the town of Whitby,

and thus is easy of access from all points—east, west, and north.

The College buildings are beautifully situated in a healthy

locality, upon the summit of a gently-rising slope, and command an

extensive view of the surrounding country and of Lake Ontario.

They are handsomely built of red brick and cut-stone facings,

four stories in height. The main building has 106 feet frontage,

and in it are the dining-room, school, class and lecture rooms,

Principal's room, Matron's rooms, and Teachers' parlors. The two

wings extend over 80 feet back, and contain the Laboratory and the

students' parlors and sleeping apartments. All the rooms are lofty

and spacious, and heated by means of steam.

The beauty of the surrounding landscapes and the quiet of the

village and country contribute to studiousness, while the absence of

many temptations peculiar to large towns and cities renders the

place eminently safe for the residence of students removed from the

watchful guardianship of home.

DESIGN OF THE SCHOOL.

The object of Pickering College is to secure to its students a

thorough grounding in all the essentials of a liberal education, and

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at the same time to surround them with all the moral influences and

guarded care of a well-conducted home.

The qualification for entrance into the College is the same as

that required for High Schools and Collegiate Institutes, but there

is a preparatory department for those who have not passed the

Entrance Examination,

The regular College course covers the work required for passing

the High School Primary and Junior Leaving Examinations.

GENERAL COURSE.

FIRST YEAR.

English : Grammar (Seath's High School), Simple Prose and Poetic

Literature, Composition, Reading and Spelling.

Latin : Latin Grammar and easy translations.

Modern Languages—French : Grammar and Translation.

German : Grammar and Translation.

Mathematics : Algebra, Arithmetic.

History and Geography : English History, Geography of British

Empire.

Science: Botany.

SECOND YEAR.

English : Grammar (Seath's High School), Critical Study of Prose

and Poetical Extracts, Rhetoric and Composition, Reading and

Spelling.

Latin: Grammar (Harkness), Caesar (Book III.).

Modern Languages—French: Grammar and Conversation, High

School French Reader. German : Grammar and Conversation

Grimm's Kinder and Hausmarchen.

Mathematics : Algebra (Simple Equations), Euclid (Book I., 1-26),

Arithmetic and Mensuration.

History and Geography: Canadian History, English History,

Geography.

Science : Physics.

THIRD YEAR.

English : Grammar, Composition and Rhetoric, Extracts from

Wordsworth, Reading and Spelling.

Latin : Grammar and Prose Composition, Virgil's ^Eneid (Book I.),

Caesar (Books III. and IV.).

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Modern Languages— French: Grammar and Conversation, Les

Freres Colombe (De Peyrebrune), La Fee (Feuillet).

German: Grammar and Conversation ; Riehl, Der stummeRatsherr, Der Dachs auf Lichtmess, Der Liebmedicus.

Mathematics : Arithmetic and Mensuration, Euclid (Books I. -III.),

Algebra (Quadratic Equations).

History and Geography: British History, 1688-1815 ; Outlines of

Roman and Grecian History ; Classical Geography.

Science : Chemistry.

COMMERCIAL FORM.

Many boys and young men are anxious to obtain a thorough

business education without being forced to study those subjects

required only for entrance into the learned professions. To meet

this want, there has been established in Pickering College a Com-

mercial Form, in which no student is required to take other subjects

than Commercial Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Commercial Law, Pen-

manship, Business Correspondence, and Commercial Geography.

These subjects are taught so thoroughly that an industrious and

attentive pupil, who has passed through the form, will be as compe-

tent to work in a counting-house or take charge of a set of books as

it is possible to be without actual business experience.

Any student of the Commercial Form, who wishes to do so, may

take up any other subject taught in the College.

PICKERING COLLEGE COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATES.

In order to test the character of the work done in the Commer-

cial Form, and to give to meritorious students an opportunity of

securing a fitting testimonial of their attainments in the studies

pursued by them in the College, examinations are held in June and

December, at which papers are set in the following subjects :

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I. Business P'orms and Business Correspondence.

II. Book keeping, Theoretical and Practical.

III. Banking.

IV. Commercial Arithmetic.

V.. Mental Arithmetic (oral).

VI. Commercial Geography.

VII. Spelling (oral and from dictation).

VIII. English Grammar (practical).

IX. Penmanship. (Special importance will be attached to this

subject.)

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X. Commercial Law.

XL Phonography (optional).

XII. Typewriting (optional).

In Commercial Arithmetic the limits will be :—Fractions, Com-mon and Decimal ; Percentage, Proportion, Currencies, Profit and

Loss, Commission, Insurance, Duties and Customs, Average, Bank-

ruptcy ; Interest, with shortened methods of computing it ; Partial

Payments, Exchange, Stocks, Banking, Equation of Payments and

Accounts, Account Sales, and Partnership.

Mental Arithmetic.—The simple rules, and ordinary business

calculations.

Commercial Geography.—Dominion of Canada in detail. Ageneral knowledge of the geography of Great Britain, its dependen-

cies, and of the United States. The capitals, religions, forms of

government, and exports of other countries. A detailed knowledge

of Canadian railroads and waterways. The leading railroads and

canals of the United States.

MUSIC

Pickering College affords excellent facilities for obtaining an

advanced and thorough musical education, The department is

under the control of Mrs. E. J. Dignum, of Toronto, an able and

distinguished musician, who is well known in her profession. The

system of instruction is uniform, so that the progress of students is

not retarded when advancement takes place.

DISCIPLINE AND CONDUCT.

All the teachers reside in the College.

Under the general oversight of the Principal, lady students are

under the charge of the Lady Principal, and male students under

the charge of the House-master. The discipline of the College is

mild, but firmly and impartially administered. In addition to the

lessons, recitations, and lectures during the day, there are regular

hours for study, morning and evening, under the supervision of the

teachers. After the " evening study " is over, no more study, as a

rule, is permitted, except in the case of students whose age and

general conduct warrant it, and to them the permission is given as

freely as need be.

Severe, or even frequent punishment of any sort will not be

resorted to. Gross misconduct or violation of rules will be met by

instant suspension, and, after investigation by the College Committee,

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by dismissal. Persistent misconduct, even of a trifling nature, will

be similarly dealt with.

It is the hope of the Committee to fill the College with earnest

students, who will do their work for its own sake. The idle and

vicious, after a fair trial, will be got rid of.

The system of co-education of the sexes, judiciously pursued, is

not only practicable, but it is eminently advantageous. The daily

association of young people in the presence of careful teachers is

found to elevate decidedly the standard of their deportment and

scholarship. Students have separate walks, grounds, entrances, and

gymnasiums. No communications are allowed, and the school-

rooms, halls, and apartments of the officers and teachers are so

located as to separate complete 1 }- the portion of the building

occupied by the male students from that occupied by the lad)

students.

Experience has shcfcvn that a good standard of discipline can be

obtained with but few arbitrary rules ; that order being much

superior which ensues from the observance of principles of conduct.

It will be the aim of the officers of the school to implant and foster

in students such principles of conduct as shall give good results, not

in school merely, but in after life.

In the Appendix will be found the more important rules and

regulations relating to conduct and study, and it will be seen that

these have been framed with the principal aim of obtaining from

each student as faithful an employment of the time as is consistent

with health and a fair amount of recreation. Parents can have

every confidence that the most conscientious guardianship is

exercised over students placed in the College.

RECREATION.

The grounds about the College afford sufficient means of recrea-

tion. An adjacent stream gives the boys excellent opportunities for

bathing and swimming in the summer, and for skating in the winter.

It will be the chief aim of the officers and teachers to encourage in

the students a love of outside exercise, and no pains will be spared

by the Committee to make this a prominent feature of the institu-

tion, so that the health of students may be secured in the best

possible way, namely, by fresh air and outdoor recreation.

READING-ROOM AND LIBRARY.

The Reading-room will contain a good supply of local and gen-

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eral newspapers and magazines. Students will be encouraged to

keep themselves posted upon the current topics of the day.

The school Library is kept in the main schoolroom, on open

shelves, for ready access, and is supplied with an Encyclopaedia,

Dictionaries, Atlases, full-bound sets of Examination Papers, and

various other books of reference of great use to students in higher

classwork and side reading.

RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTRUCTIONAND SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

The Principal is a minister of the Society of Friends. All

religious meetings are under his supervision, and for them special

times are set apart.

Every day, morning and evening, worship is conducted. School

is opened and closed also by prayer and reading the Scriptures.

On the Sabbath day those students who ate not Friends, and whose

parents desire it, are allowed to attend their own places of worship

(if the services are held in the day-time) at such hours as shall not

conflict with the College Bible School ; all others are expected to

attend the Friends' Meeting. In Pickering there are, besides the

Friends, the following places of worship : one Church of England,

one Roman Catholic, one Presbyterian, one Methodist, and one

Disciples'.

Bible Classes are held on Sabbath afternoons, and a meeting for

worship in the College in the evening.

Prayer-meetings are held once a week. The Management hope

to make good influences the brightest feature in the School.

Note.—All students are expected to attend the Bible School,

the Sabbath Evening Meeting, and the mid-week prayer meeting,

unless excused for good and sufficient reasons by the Principal.

TERMS AND FEES.

The College year is divided into three Terms.

For the year 1892-93 the Autumn Term begins Ninth month

(September) 6th, and closes Twelfth month (December) 22nd, 1892;

16 weeks. Fees— (a) $65, (b) $57.

The Winter Term begins First month (January) 3rd, and closes

Third month (March) 29th, 1893; 13 weeks. Fees

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(a) $53, (b) $47.

The Spring Term begins Fourth month (April) 5th, and closes

Sixth month (June) 22nd, 1893; 11 weeks. Fees

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(a) $42, (/;) $47..

(a) Fees for those in Collegiate and Commercial Departments.

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(/>) Fees for those pupils in Preparatory Department.

The above fees are payable in advance at the ope?iing of the

Ter??i, either by cash or by approved note, and include board, washing,

care of rooms, fuel, light, tuition, and all necessary expenses except

books and stationery. All fees are to be paid to the Principal, who

will draw on parents and guardians not paying in the regular way.

No allowances are made for short absences, or for absences

during the first or last two weeks of a Term. Students are admitted

at any time, and, with these exceptions, are charged pro rata from

date of admission.

The fees for day students in Collegiate and Commercial Depart-

ments are : $16 for the Autumn Term, $13 for the Winter Term,

and $11 for the Spring Term. For Preparatory day students: Au-

tumn Term $12, Winter Term $10, Spring Term $8; also payable

in advance.

In cases of protracted illness, students will be allowed to furnish

satisfactory substitutes for the remainder of a Term, or to make up.

the time of their absence themselves the next Term. If students

should leave the College for any other cause, or be suspended, or

expelled, they will forfeit their fees for that Term.

EXTRAS.

PER TERM OF TEN WEEKS.

Instrumental Music $8 00-

Vocal Lessons 8 00

Use of Instrument one hour daily 2 00

(Additional time at a pro rata charge.)

Drawing 4 00

Painting in Oil or Water Colors 8 00

Shorthand 6 oc

Typewriting 5 00

As students are received only for the College Terms, Autumn,

Winter, and Spring, the fees for extras are proportional to the above

amounts.

APPLICATIONS AND ADMISSIONS.

Each application should state the age and standing of the appli-

cant ; the examination, if any, which it is wished to prepare for

;

whether a member of the Society of Friends or not ; and should be

accompanied by satisfactory evidence of good moral character. No

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student will be received who has been dismissed from any school or

college on account of bad conduct, or in regard to whom there is

any such suspicion.

Students coming from a distance are expected to reside in the

College, and should, if possible, be present on the first day of each

Term.

Note.— All students on coming to the College are requested to

have all their articles of linen and underclothing legibly marked with

their names in ink. The rooms are furnished. Students are, how-

ever, expected to provide their qwn towels and napkins.

CONCLUSION.

It is the purpose of the Society of Friends, and of the promoters

of Pickering College, in endowing and maintaining it, to give to all

students who attend it, as far as possible, ,a thoroughly useful and

well-grounded liberal education at the lowest possible cost. None but

earnest students, those willing to work, are invited to attend. There

are no prizes or scholarships, nor is any inducement held out to

students to work and study except the satisfying of their sense ot

duty, and the pleasure which comes to those who endeavor to

acquire knowledge for its own sake. At the same time, such dis-

cipline is enforced that no student is allowed to idle.

A report of each pupil's standing in deportment and recitations

is furnished to the pupil fortnightly on a form prepared for the pur-

pose. This form is to be sent by the pupils to their parents or

guardians, who are requested to examine, sign, and return it at once.

It may be added that it is the hope of the Committee that many

young men and young women who desire to prepare for some exam-

ination, or to pursue a course of study, but whose earlier education

has been neglected, will find in Pickering College the kind of help

and instruction they require, without the disagreeableness of being

forced to submit to the grading and classification which are essential

to large Government institutions.

Applications for admission may be addressed to the Principal,

who will gladly furnish any further information in regard to the

College, or any of the examinations for which it prepares candidates.

Contmct IRules-

[// is understood that all patrons and students of the College, by the fact of

becoming such, assent to the Conduct Rules, as well as to the Regulations respecting

all Fees and Dues. ]

EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL RULES OF CONDUCT FOR RESIDENTMALE STUDENTS.

i. All Male Students of the College are under the charge of the

House-master, whose duty it is, with the assistance of the other

teachers, to supervise their Conduct and deportment, to correct for

all ordinary delinquencies, and to report misconduct of a graver

nature to the Principal.

2. Male Students are requested to refer all ordinary permissions

to the House-master, who will as a rule decide them, but may, if he

prefers, refer them to the Principal.

3. Unless with special permission, Male Students are not to be

beyond College bounds, except on afternoon* between the hours of

School Closing and the first Supper Bell. On holidays, Students

who have permission to study in their rooms may leave bounds be-

tween Morning Worship and first Supper Bell. All others are

expected to obtain permission before leaving bounds in the forenoon.

In case of any misuse of these privileges, or of any misconduct on

the part of the Students, these exceptions, or either one of them,

may be withdrawn, either for one or more Students, or for the entire

residence, and for such times as may seem best to the Principal.

4. Male Students, during recreation hours, must occupy their

own side of the College grounds.

5. All Male Students are expected to attend the Evening Study

in the Main Schoolroom, unless excused by the Principal. Steadi-

ness of Character, College standing, and age are chiefly considered

in granting Students permission to study in their own rooms.

Students taking second-class work are allowed this privilege during

good behavior. Such students must remain in their own rooms

during the regular study .hours.

6. Students are not allowed to carry firearms, nor to keep them

in their rooms.

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7. All detriments to the College building or furniture, whether

by defacement, by breakage, or otherwise, will be charged to the

persons causing such detriment; and "defacement" shall be con-

sidered to include carving or cutting with a knife, writing, scratching,

scrawling or drawing with a pen, pencil, chalk, or otherwise.

8. Drinking wine, beer, or spirituous liquors, the use of tobacco

in any manner and in any place, profane swearing, and card-playing

are strictly forbidden. No student who persists in any of these

practices will be allowed to remain in the College.

EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL RULES OF CONDUCT FOR RESIDENTLADY STUDENTS.

i. All Lady Students of the College are under the charge of the

Lady Principal, whose duty it is, writh the aid of the other lady

teachers, to supervise their conduct and deportment, to correct for

all ordinary delinquencies, and to report misconduct of a graver

nature to the Principal.

2. Lady Students are requested to refer all permissions to the

Lady Principal.

3. Every day, weather permitting, young ladies are expected to

walk out together for exercise. The Lady Principal will arrange for

the time and direction of.these walks, and will either accompany the

young ladies herself or provide a substitute.

4. All Lady Students are expected to attend the Morning and

Evening Study in the Main Schoolroom, unless excused by the

Principal.

5. Lady Students are expected at no time to go beyond College

bounds unless they have obtained permission.

6. All detriments to the College building or furniture, whether

by defacement, by breaking, or otherwise, will be charged to the

persons causing such detriment.

Note.—The above Rules and Regulations are not intended to be harsh or

severe. They are made simply for the welbbeing of Students and the good

government of the College. As the duties of the Home-master and the Lady

Principal are in themselves sufficiently onerous, it is particularly requested that

all Students under their care will, in a cheerful and courteous manner, conform,

as far as possible, to the Rules of the College, and thus render their duties much

less irksome than they otherwise would be. *